A Night the Earth Didn't Sleep

Ⅰ.Why does the writer use "A night the earth didn't sleep"as the title?

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Ⅱ. Fast reading.

What does the passage mainly talk about? When and where did the earthquake happen?

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Ⅲ.Scan the passage and find out the topic sentence of each paragraph.

Paragraph Topic sentence Position in paragraph 1 2 3 4 Ⅳ.How many parts can this passage be divided into?

Part paragraph Main idea 1 Ⅴ.Careful reading. Read the passage carefully and find more information about it.

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* ______of the nation felt the earthquake .

* A huge crack that was kilometers long and meters wide cut across houses.

* In terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins.

* of the people died or were injured during the earthquake.

* The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than .

All of the city's hospitals, _ of its factories and buildings and